Re: Threads in linux.

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> But the director says me that linux doesn't implement threads, is this
> true?. He said that threads in linux are implemented by a library, not
> at kernel-level.

We've had clone(2) for quite a few years now. And there's a
proper(?) posix threads implementation in the C library that
uses the clone interface.

There's even a page about multithreaded applications on Linux
and the way they scale on SMP systems:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~hollow/mthread.html

cheers,

Rik

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